Bingo. Most people confuse "weather" with "climate". They think that if we have a run of 20-30 years of relatively warm weather that the climate IS changing. The man-made global warming crowd is happy to feed on this misunderstanding. There's a lot of money to be made by it, in a variety of areas, from research grants and government subsidies for so-called "green" initiatives, to carbon credits trading and non-profit orgs funding. (Not to forget all the cool conventions they have in places like Bali, Cauncun, Copenhagen, etc., all without the attendees having to spend one dime of their own money.

A big part of the problem is that liberals just eat this stuff up, and don't even bother to seek out and study opposing research, consider other reasons for increased temperatures, or even think for themselves, they blindly follow along with the narrative.